List of admission tests to colleges and universities
This is a list of standardized tests that students may have to take for admissions to various Universities and Colleges. Tests of language proficiency are excluded here.
Only tests not included within a certain secondary schooling curriculum are listed. Thus, those tests initially focused on secondary-school-leaving, e.g., GCE A-Levels in the UK, or French Baccalaureate, are not listed here, although they function as the de facto admission tests in those countries (see list of secondary school leaving certificates).
[edit] Undergraduate
[edit] Australia
- STAT – Special Tertiary Admissions Test, aptitude test for non-school leavers
- UMAT – Undergraduate Medical Admissions Test, required for undergraduate entry to many Australian and New Zealand undergraduate-entry medical schools
- GAT - General Achievement Test ( VCE Students - Victorian Certificate of Education )
- HSC - Higher School Certificate
[edit] Brazil
- Vestibular – Single University entrance exam in Brazil, each University may have its own vestibular.
- ENEM - National High School Exam. Since 2009 the score is used to enter in most universities, after this many universities extinguished their vestibulars.
[edit] Chile
[edit] China
- National College Entrance Examination – Standard means of entry to Chinese universities
- AST – Ameson Scholastic Test, originally designed for students who come from China, and are applying for the University of Cambridge of the UK, now used by a handful of UK and Australian universities.
[edit] Colombia
- ICFES exam – Test for all undergraduate students that want to apply to a university in Colombian territory.
[edit] France
- Baccalauréat (or le bac) – Test for all undergraduate students who are looking to enter a university in France.
[edit] Germany
- Abitur – Test for German students who want to apply to a university in Germany.
[edit] Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (Last year of exam in 2011)
- Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination (Last year of exam in 2013)
- Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (The new qualification to replace the two qualifications above)
[edit] Hungary
From 2016 all students who would like to apply for a university in Hungary have to prove their language skills. They are required to pass a nationally accredited language exam at B2 CEFR level.
- The European Language Certificates (language exam)
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics (language exam)
[edit] India
Admission procedures and entry tests vary widely across states and universities/institutes. Usually, admission to a university in a state is based upon the performance of the candidates in the state-wide Higher Secondary examinations. These are usually given after completion of the twelfth standard/grade, for e.g. the HSC examinations of Maharashtra. Some states also have special entrance examinations for entry into engineering and medical programs, for e.g. the Common Entrance Test in Karnataka, Common Entrance Test in DELHI. Admission into federally established institutes like the Central Universities, the IITs and the NITs is usually based on a combination of performance in nation-wide exams such as the AIEEE and the state-level Higher Secondary examinations. Admission to the National Law Universities is based on a merit-cum- preference National level entry examination conducted annually by Common Law Admission Test [CLAT] organising Committee.
- Common Law Admission Test – Standard means of entry to the National Law Universities across India.
- AIEEE – Standard means of entry to the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) across India with other reputed private as well as government universities.
- All India Pre Medical Test – Standard test for admission to 15% of Central Government quota merit seats in Government Medical Colleges in India.
- BITSAT – Standard means of entry to BITS Pilani institutes across the country.
- IIT-JEE, HSEE – Standard exams for entry to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and ITBHU
- Manipal University, VIT, SRM, Jain University, KIIT Entrance Examinations- for entry into these reputed private Deemed Universities
- GGSIPU Conducts CET to admission to various programes in country's capital(DELHI) in various government and private engineering college.
- CAT, XAT, MAT, NMAT, AMCAT (Amity University), or SNAP – Standard exams for entry to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other business schools
[edit] State Level
- WBJEE – Test for admissions into medical, engineering and pharmacy course in West Bengal-one of the premier places of learning in India, which boasts of the first IIT (Kharagpur) and the first IIM (Calcutta)in India.
WBJEE, one of the most competitive entrance exams for admission into engineering colleges in India, is conducted to filter out students for admission into premier engineering colleges like Jadavpur University and Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, besides other good tech schools in the state.
- BCECE – Test for admissions into medical, engineering and pharmacy course in the Bihar.
BCECE Board is the only institute of its kind in the Country that care about proxy students. At the examination centre candidates have to proceed through three thorough steps to avoid proxy.
- MP-PET – Test for admissions into medical, engineering and pharmacy course in the M.P.
Board is the only institute of its kind in the Country that organizes competitive tests all over India for entrance to various professional courses every year on a very large scale.
- GUJCET – Test for admissions into medical, engineering and pharmacy course in the state.
- GCET – Test for admissions into MCA and MBA programs in the state.
- EAMCET – Test for admissions into engineering and medical schools in the state
- CEE – Test for admissions into engineering colleges like Assam Engineering College( at Guwahati ), Jorhat Engineering College, Jorhat Institute of Science and Technology( at Jorhat), Bineswar Brahma Engineering College( at Kokrajhar), Girijananda Choudhury Institute of Management and Technology( at Guwahati & Tezpur ), Royal Institute of Technology( at Guwahati ), NITS (at Mirza, Guwahati)and medical colleges like Guwahati Medical College & Hospital( at Guwahati ), Assam Medcal College & Hospital( at Dibrughar), Silchar Medical College & Hospital(at Silchar), Jorhat Medical College & Hospital(at Jorhat), Fakruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College & Hospital( at Barpeta) in the state of Assam.
- CEE[disambiguation needed
] – Standard means of entry to Delhi College of Engineering(DCE) and Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT).
Although from 2010, the CEE has been cancelled and instead both of the above listed institutes will conduct counselling and admissions via the score in AIEEE exam.
- CET – Standard means of entry to State government engineering college (CBPGEC, AIT, GBPGEC) and affiliated self-financed college. GGSIPU, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.
- Common Entrance Test, the Karnataka common entrance test (KCET) – Test for admission into public and private medical and engineering colleges.
- Comed-K, conducted by the Consortium of medical and engineering colleges of Karnataka - for admission into private engineering and medical colleges.
- MHT-CET, the Maharashtra Health sciences & Technical- Common Entrance test – Test for admission into medical and engineering schools.
- Orissa JEE, The Orissa Joint Entrance Examination – Test for admission into medical, engineering management schools
- SEE-UPTU, previously Asia's biggest university but now split into 2 separate universities namely Gautam Buddha Technical University and Mahamaya Technical University. It conducts examination for engineering, architecture, pharmacy and management courses.
- TNPCEE – Test for undergraduate admissions in the select universities in the state of Tamil Nadu.This test has been removed from admission requirements from the academic year 2007–08 following approval from the then president Dr. APJ Abdulkalam
Single Entrance Examination for Medical Entrance
The Medical Council of India has finally decided (and Accepted by Health Ministry) that there will be only one common entrance test each for over 30,000 MBBS seats and over 11,000 MD seats in all government and medical colleges in the country, reports the Times of India
Earlier (till this year), students wanting to take up courses in medicine had to appear in at least five to six MBBS and MD entrance tests for various colleges and worry about attendant problems like clash of exam dates as well as travel to distant places for counselling for allotment of seats.
But from 2011, there will be just one entrance test each for MBBS and MD courses offered by all 271 medical colleges, 138 government-run and 133 under private management. These colleges together offer over 31,000 seats for MBBS courses and another 11,000 for PG.
The confusion caused by multiple entrance tests and counselling saw hundreds of students rush to the Supreme Court every year complaining about the system where they were left high and dry even for making a single mistake in their choices.
In response to a petition filed by Simran Jain through advocate A D N Rao had sought a direction from the Supreme court to Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Centre for a single window system for admissions.
During hearing of the petition before a Bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and H L Gokhale, the decision for one common entrance test was conveyed by MCI counsel and senior advocate Amarendra Saran. Additional solicitor general P P Malhotra said the government had accepted MCI’s suggestion to amend the regulation concerning admissions to medical colleges.
[edit] Indonesia
- TKB – Test for undergraduate admissions in Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
- id:SPMB (SNMPTN) – Test for undergraduate admissions in State College in Indonesia
- SPMB – Test for undergraduate admissions in some state and private colleges
- Gadjah Mada University – Faculty of International Medicine entrance exam.
[edit] Israel
- Psychometric Entrance Test (colloquially "The Psychometry") – Required for undergraduate entry to most universities in Israel
[edit] Iran
- Iranian University Entrance Exam (Konkoor/Concours) – Standard means of entry to universities in Iran.
[edit] Ireland
- Health Professions Admissions Test (HPAT) – Undergraduate Medical Admissions Test, required for undergraduate entry to Irish Medical Schools
[edit] Japan
- National Center Test for University Admissions
- Examination for Japanese University Admission – Required for entry by foreigners into many Japanese Universities
[edit] Pakistan
- NAT - Category I – National Aptitude Test, for admission in Engineering, Computer Science, Medical and Arts in most universities of Pakistan
Also needs MCAT medical colleges Admission Test for getting admission in any medical college and ECAT for getting Admission in any Engineering College University. www.nts.org.pk
- GAT - Category I - Graduate Assessment Test', for admission in some universities, it is administered by National Testing Services (NTS).
[edit] Poland
Universities and other institutions of higher education formerly ran their own entrance exams. Since the introduction of the "new matura" in 2005, and in particular the marking of that exam by independent examiners rather than by teachers at students' own schools, the matura now serves as the admission test for Polish students. See Polish matura.
[edit] Russia
- Unified State Exam (Russian: Единый государственный экзамен, ЕГЭ, tr. Yediniy gosudarstvenniy ekzamen, EGE) – every student must pass after graduation from school to enter a university or a professional college. Since 2009, EGE is the only form of graduation examinations in schools and the main form of preliminary examinations in universities.
- Unified Republic Exam [1][2] (Russian: Единый республиканский экзамен, ЕРЭ, tr. Yediniy respublikanskiy ekzamen, ERE; Tatar: Бердәм Республика Имтиханы, БРИ, Berdäm Respublika Imtixanı, BRI) – students which graduate in the Republic of Tatarstan can choose to pass the ERE/BRI in the Tatar language. The test is not obligatory and accepted as an entry exam only by the Tatarstan universities, especially for the Tatar language faculties.
[edit] Singapore
[edit] Sweden
- Högskoleprovet – the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test
- PIL – Test and interview, used by the Karolinska Institute for admission to some of its study programmes
[edit] South Korea
- College Scholastic Ability Test – Standard means of entry to South Korean universities and colleges
[edit] Taiwan (Republic of China)
- General Scholastic Ability Test - Standard means of entry to Taiwanese universities and colleges held in January. It consists of five subjects, namely Chinese, English, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science. All examinees should take the whole set of test.
- Department Required Test - Standard means of entry to Taiwanese universities and colleges held in July. It consists of ten subjects, namely Chinese, English, Mathematics(A and B), History, Geography, Citizen and Society, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Examinees can take the tests that are required to meet to university's standard.
[edit] Turkey
- YGS – Standard means of entry to Turkish universities. (1st step)
- LYS – Standard means of entry to Turkish universities. (2nd step)
- YÖS – The Examination for Foreign Students for Higher Education Programs in Turkey
[edit] Ukraine
- External Independent Evaluation Test - Test for all undergraduate students who are looking to enter a university in Ukraine.
[edit] United Kingdom
- HAT – History Aptitude Test
- LNAT – National Admissions Test for Law
- BMAT – Biomedical Admissions Test
- UKCAT – United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test
- ELAT – English Literature Admissions Test
- Modern and Medieval Languages Test, provided and required by the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages of the University of Cambridge
- STEP – Sixth Term Examination Paper, only the subjects of Mathematics(I, II, III) are available after 2003
- Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA Cambridge)
- Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA Oxford), formerly known as the PPE(Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Admissions Test
- Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA UCL)
- Graduate Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT)
- Health Professions Admissions Test (HPAT), currently only in use for admission into Medicine in the University of Ulster
[edit] United States and Canada
- SAT – formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test
- ACT – formerly American College Testing Program or American College Test
- THEA – Texas Higher Education Assessment
- GRE – Graduate Record Examination
- GED – High School Diploma Equivalent
[edit] Vietnam
- TSĐH - Tuyển Sinh Đại Học
[edit] Postgraduate/Professional schools
[edit] Australia
- GAMSAT – Graduate Australian Medical Schools Admissions Test
- LSAT – Law School Admission Test (some Juris Doctor programs)
- IELTS (academic) – International English Language Test (for international students)
[edit] Brazil
- ANPEC – Admission test for Postgraduate studies in Economics
- ANPAD – Admission test for Postgraduate studies in Business Administration
- POSCOMP - Admission test for Postgraduate studies in Computer Science
[edit] Turkey
- TUS – Graduate Medical Schools Admissions Test
- ALES – Academic Personnel and Postgraduate Education Entrance Examination
[edit] China
- Postgraduate Admission Test – Admission test for all graduate schools in mainland China. Subjects may vary.
[edit] Colombia
- ECAES – Examen de Estado de Calidad de la Educación Superior
[edit] India
- MH-CET – (Maharashtra-India)
- Common Admission Test (CAT)- (India)
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), JAM[disambiguation needed ] and Jmet – Standard means of entry to the graduate courses at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
- Management Aptitude Test (MAT)-(India)
- Faculty of Management Studies (FMS)-(India)
- Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT)-(India)
- The IIT-Joint Entrance Exam - An MCQ based admission test to the Indian Institute of Technology and other technological colleges.
- EAMCET - (Andhra Pradesh-India)
- TANCET - (TamilNadu An Entrance Test for admissions to M.E/M.Tech/M.Arch/M.Plan programmes in Engineering Streams and also for MBA/MCA admissions.-India)
- KCET - (karnataka-India)
[edit] Pakistan
- GAT-GENERAL – Graduate Aptitude Test, for admission in M.Phil and HEC Scholarship Schemes, Pakistan.
- GAT-SUBJECT – Graduate Aptitude Test, for admission in PhD programs, Pakistan.
- NAT - Category II – National Aptitude Test, for admission in Graduate / Masters programs, Pakistan.
[edit] United Kingdom
- IELTS (academic) – International English Language Test (for international students)
[edit] United States and Canada
- Miller Analogies Test (MAT)
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
- Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
- Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
- Dental Admission Test (DAT) (United States)
- Dental Aptitude Test (DAT) (Canada)
- Optometry Admission Test (OAT)
- Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT)
- Veterinary College Admission Test (VCAT) (Has not been offered since April 2003)
- Allied Health Professions Admission Test (AHPAT)
- Law School Admission Test (LSAT)
- TOEFL – Test of English as a foreign language (for international students)
[edit] See also
- List of primary and secondary school tests
- List of secondary school leaving certificates
- List of language proficiency tests
[edit] External links
- Test Preparation at the Open Directory Project
- Educational Testing Service developer of many of these exams
- Standard means of entry to Ukrainian universities and colleges (Russian)
